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WS 6.7 Effects & Applications of Nuclear Chemistry
In this nuclear chemistry worksheet, students are given the biological effects of nuclear radiation. They are also given a list of uses of nuclear chemistry and Einstein's theory of special relativity to calculate the energy change in...
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Hopkins Medical News: Colon Cancer Conversations
This author relates his family's cancer story as a way of personalizing the work of Dr. Vogelstein and others in the battle to beat colon cancer.
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Story md.com: Cancer: Understanding What Is Cancer
An in-depth look at cancer and the human body. Learn about cancer on a cellular level, types of cancer, how genetics and lifestyle risk factors play a part in cancer growth, and much more.
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Pbs Teachers: Cancer Warrior: How Cancer Grows
Follow the progression of a malignant tumor, beginning with the first mutation within a cell and ending with metastasis, the colonization of related tumors throughout the body.
BBC
Bbc: Week of 7 28 14: Bedtime Light 'May Stop Cancer Drug Working'
Learn how light impacts human hormones during sleep, and how it may prevent a drug called Tamoxifen from working.
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Pbs Learning Media: How Cancer Cells Grow and Divide
This animation from NOVA: "Battle in the War on Cancer: Breast Cancer" describes how oncogenes cause cancer and how cancerous cells can spread throughout the body.
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Cancer Institute: Kidney Cancer Treatment and Research
This site from the National Cancer Institute provides a range of information about various types of kidney cancer and treatments.
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Kids Health: Childhood Cancer
This article gives information about childhood cancer and its most common cause, genetic mutation. Treatment information is also included.
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Pbs: Possible Cancer Treatments
This concise site describes the cancer treatments currently available along with new techniques that are being utilized with each treatment.
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Cancer Guide: Steve Dunn's Kidney Cancer Page
A kidney cancer survivor outlines how he beat the cancer and provides information about treatment options.